paragraph continuity

[Jake]

Its word 2007.

lets say i am writing an essay on a page and im close to the end of that
page. if the page has only few lines left before that edge of the lower
margin and if im writing a "long" sentence that contains 4 lines (for
example) what happens is that word2007 never fills all the left lines below
with my sentence but It breaks the sentence in a horrible way that makes no
sense!! IT moves to continue typing on next page white there are one or two
lines left empty at the bottom of the former page?!
the same silly thing happen when im writing a paragraph 4 lines long at the
bottom of a page that have less than 4 lines left (3, 2 or 1 line) when i
start typing the forth line it JUMPS to the next page and moves the whole
paragraph to the other page and leave the former page with three empty ugly
lines at the bottom :-(

is there any settings that make word not to worship the idea that paragrahs
must be physically continueuos ( on one page) and not to leave any empty line
for that sake ?!

please help

 

[grammatim]

I can't speak specifically to Word2007, but it sounds like you have
Widow and Orphan Control turned on, In Word2003, this was on the
second tab of Format | Paragraph, which I gather is handled
differently in 2007.

W & O C is so that you'll never have just the first line of a
paragraph at the bottom of a page, or just the last line of a
paragraph at the top of a page, and it's the default setting; it's
usually what you want. But it does get annoying when typing in what
used to be called Print View (in Normal View, you wouldn't notice it).
Just uncheck the box (wherever they keep it now), and you won't get a
new page until you've filled up the old one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

 

[Jake]

thaaaaaaaaaanks THATS IT :-D

As for word 2007 its almost in the same place:

Rebon: Page Layout > Paragraph: extended by the little arrow > Line and
Page Breaks > Widow/Orphan Control


thanks again

 

[grammatim]

Hee hee ... beat you to it! Does that make me a Somewhat Valuable
Player?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, MVP is actually Most Valuable Professional, so you'd be a Somewhat
Valuable Professional.

I saw your answer, which is the "give the man a fish" answer, which in this
case was obviously satisfactory and sufficient. Mine is the "teach a man to
fish" answer, which may well be surplus to requirements. <g>

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Hee hee ... beat you to it! Does that make me a Somewhat Valuable
Player?